Floating Units

The dredging department is one of the departments of the Suez Canal Authority, which is concerned with the dredging works of Suez Canal to maintain the design dimensions of the canal to allow all types of world vessels to pass through safely. The dredging department owns a fleet of dredgers consists of eleven units, including :

-Five Cutter suction dredgers

-Three Self Propelled Hopper Suction Dredgers

-One Bucket Wheel Excavator Cutter Suction Dredger

-One Barge Unloading Dredger

-One Booster Station.

In addition, the department has a large fleet of auxiliary support units (marine cranes, tugboats, surveying boats, launches, self-propelled spilt barges, earth moving equipment and ferryboats). The Department has a set of workshops for quick repairs of marine units and preparing of delivery floating pipelines.

The dredging department had executed several external projects in Egyptian ports and the ports of some Arab countries.